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captioning sponsored by wpbt mickey mouse and hannah montana are joining forces with spiderman and ironman in a deal worth $4 billion. they're not the only ones teaming up. >> susie: when it comes to a second stimulus package, more and more economists say it just doesn't add up. but there's no consensus when it comes to prospects for inflation and the timing of a recovery. >> you wouldn't want to pull the rug from american families trying to buy a house and from the financial system that only now is looking at a stabilizing housing factor. >> paul: that's what some experts say would happen if uncle sam stopped buying mortgage-backed securitys. we'll look at options for reducing the fed spending spree. >> susie: days after announcing a new schedule for its green liner boeing announces a major management shake-up. details in tonight's stock in the news. >> paul: i'm paul kangas. >> susie: and i'm susie gharib. this is nightly business report for monday august 30. >> susie: good evening, everyone. the government needs to stop spending money on the u.s. economy. that's the conclusion today fro
captioning sponsored by wpbt mickey mouse and hannah montana are joining forces with spiderman and ironman in a deal worth $4 billion. they're not the only ones teaming up. >> susie: when it comes to a second stimulus package, more and more economists say it just doesn't add up. but there's no consensus when it comes to prospects for inflation and the timing of a recovery. >> you wouldn't want to pull the rug from american families trying to buy a house and from the financial system...
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coon is able to examine a woman 300 miles away in scobie, montana. there is just one family doctor there for several hundred miles. >> you measure your blood sugars at home? >> yes, i take them every day. >> reporter: many like 80-year-old fitz are unable to drive the hundreds of miles to billings to see a specialist. >> just would provide better care for her than coming here one time and getting lost in care transitions going back to the community. >> reporter: in the past year, billings has conducted about 3,000 telemedicine encounters, which it estimates has saved patients over a million dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. >> i'm going to take your vital signs. >> reporter: while health-policy experts are divided over whether the principles of integrated health systems could be provided in communities cras the country, most agree on one thing. if more doctors collaborated, overall care could improve and most important, could save money. >> lehrer: and now the first in a series of conversations about health reform. we'll be getting the views of some
coon is able to examine a woman 300 miles away in scobie, montana. there is just one family doctor there for several hundred miles. >> you measure your blood sugars at home? >> yes, i take them every day. >> reporter: many like 80-year-old fitz are unable to drive the hundreds of miles to billings to see a specialist. >> just would provide better care for her than coming here one time and getting lost in care transitions going back to the community. >> reporter: in...
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obama, who had a town hall in portsmouth, new hampshire, earlier this week, having another one today in montana, and his job over this recess is to keep his own party together and when i talked to white house officials, they believe they still have the vote within the democratic party in both the house and senate to pass health care bills. so the -- the bottom line, mark, and erin, this health care debate is somewhat more on track from a democratic point of view, not from a bipartisan point of view, but from a democratic point of view, a lot of coverage would suggest so far. >> you are being too kind to senator grassley, john. >> well -- you could be right. >> you don't -- you can be against this bill and not play that death panel fear card. >> i completely agree with you. >> he should be ashamed of himself. thank you, john harwood. >> scott cohn. developments related to the bernie madoff case. >> the massachusetts secretary of state, william galvin, rejected a settlement, multimillion dollar proposed settlement, bin of the largest madoff feeder funds. the fairfield green itch group. the fairfi
obama, who had a town hall in portsmouth, new hampshire, earlier this week, having another one today in montana, and his job over this recess is to keep his own party together and when i talked to white house officials, they believe they still have the vote within the democratic party in both the house and senate to pass health care bills. so the -- the bottom line, mark, and erin, this health care debate is somewhat more on track from a democratic point of view, not from a bipartisan point of...
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theown halleeting today in montana people are scare and very anxious. we've had the government taking over thears, takingver the insurance, takingver the banks. now it's goingto take over health ca. i hought reasoned part was the best part of his rformance today. thproblem is he's really good talking about withy need changend whathange would look like if w had a go sysm. he's not sod sew good talking about what the pn is. and that's where the anxiety is. the othething is he just tells a t of whoppersnow. believe me, rush lbaugh and sah palinare sayingsome things extremel off the charts untrue of the plan but i wrote downome of the things balma said which was a whoppe he said everybody cld keep their plan. six million are going to lose their plan. preventive medicine willost $90 mlion. government would be out the heth care decisions. he tells one thi aft another making it sem so easy. believe me, this i not easy. it's goi to take some sacrifices and somereally painf cuts for people to get thisystem under control,nd often, when i lookt him, i think he's o
theown halleeting today in montana people are scare and very anxious. we've had the government taking over thears, takingver the insurance, takingver the banks. now it's goingto take over health ca. i hought reasoned part was the best part of his rformance today. thproblem is he's really good talking about withy need changend whathange would look like if w had a go sysm. he's not sod sew good talking about what the pn is. and that's where the anxiety is. the othething is he just tells a t of...
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the town hall meeting today in montana. people are scared and very anxious. we've had the government taking over the cars, taking over the insurance, taking over the banks. now it's going to take over health care. i thought reasoned part was the best part of his performance today. the problem is he's really good talking about withy we need change and what change would look like if we had a good system. he's not sod sew good talking about what the plan is. and that's where the anxiety is. the other thing is he just tells a lot of whoppers now. believe me, rush limbaugh and sarah palin are saying some things extremely off the charts untrue of the plan but i wrote down some of the things balma said which was a whopper. he said everybody could keep their plan. six million are going to lose their plan. preventive medicine will cost $90 million. government would be out the health care decisions. he tells one thing after another making it seem so easy. believe me, this is not easy. it's going to take some sacrifices and some really painful cuts for people to get thi
the town hall meeting today in montana. people are scared and very anxious. we've had the government taking over the cars, taking over the insurance, taking over the banks. now it's going to take over health care. i thought reasoned part was the best part of his performance today. the problem is he's really good talking about withy we need change and what change would look like if we had a good system. he's not sod sew good talking about what the plan is. and that's where the anxiety is. the...
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. >> woodruff: from new hampshire to iowa to montana, and points beyond, americans have flocked to town halls to voice their opinions on healthcare reform this august. in charleston, west virginia, larry medley stood outside a recent meeting held by democratic senator jay rockefeller. his sign said it all. >> i don't think it makes a lot sense to, so quickly, surrender 1/6th of our economy to the government.v< i think we... i'm not saying that present h.c.r. system is perfect at all. i'm not saying that at all. certainly, i think that we don't need to jump in and throw the baby out with the bathwater. >> woodruff: amy bord was part of a small meeting with rockefeller. her son has leukemia, and she and her husband recently saw their insurance cut off because it had reached a cap on payments of $1 million. >> we want to pay what we owe, fairly. but we're not able to do that, and nobody's out there to help us. but if we didn't work and we didn't contribute, we wouldn't have to worry about it. and we'd be able to spend the time we do have at home with our twins who we haven't seen for the
. >> woodruff: from new hampshire to iowa to montana, and points beyond, americans have flocked to town halls to voice their opinions on healthcare reform this august. in charleston, west virginia, larry medley stood outside a recent meeting held by democratic senator jay rockefeller. his sign said it all. >> i don't think it makes a lot sense to, so quickly, surrender 1/6th of our economy to the government.v
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much involved in the big bipartisan thing with the senate finance committee, chairman max baucus of montana now suddenly he's gone away, it seems like, or has he. how do you read that. >> there are two chuck grassleys. the one without premiers in washington, but then there is the one without went home. and i gather some of the town hall meetings are happening in iowa, and iowans are good about this thing, are triple the size of normal. he goes home and listens and gets threatened we're going to defeat new 2010. he's up in this coming election. and he doesn't want to get defeated. and that's been, i think, the overall effect of this august. which is a lot of people and parts of the country, the health-care reform is recently po popular but in the midwest in particular and some areas of the south and places like florida, it's quite unpopular. so he has to face the fact do i really want to lose my seat over this. and so i just think it's in some sense a democratic process that is creating the other chuck grassley. >> i think there is en another chuck grassley which is -- >> three chuck grassle
much involved in the big bipartisan thing with the senate finance committee, chairman max baucus of montana now suddenly he's gone away, it seems like, or has he. how do you read that. >> there are two chuck grassleys. the one without premiers in washington, but then there is the one without went home. and i gather some of the town hall meetings are happening in iowa, and iowans are good about this thing, are triple the size of normal. he goes home and listens and gets threatened we're...
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slow roll off to head inbound and inbound, new york avenue, traffic slowed towards west virginia and montana and approaching the third street tunnel. that's the fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> school is in session now. the first day of montgomery county will bring a flood of new students as well. >> there's a record number enrollment, the officials a looking at the swine flu symptoms. good morning, the kids are right behind you. >> reporter: that's right, we have the drumline from the high school here that came through and went back into the high school there and a lot of the students showing up, school getting ready to start at 7:25 here. and it's a very big day for the school district in general. and as you mentioned, 140,000 student, that's the number we're told and that's bigger than normal. and here to talk to me is the superintendent. >> oh, it's a beautiful day. the weather's perfect and the kids are going by. and i wore my red tie because of qo today. >> and are you ready for the additional students. >> absolutely, we planned for them. we thought about 140,000 we may have 141,000. and we'
slow roll off to head inbound and inbound, new york avenue, traffic slowed towards west virginia and montana and approaching the third street tunnel. that's the fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> school is in session now. the first day of montgomery county will bring a flood of new students as well. >> there's a record number enrollment, the officials a looking at the swine flu symptoms. good morning, the kids are right behind you. >> reporter: that's right, we have the drumline...
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. >> reporter: the ad is running on cable in new hampshire, colorado and montana, states where the president is selling his plan this week, trying to reverse growing dissatisfaction over health care reform that showed up in polls of his own popularity. and with me now to talk about the president assess president obama's term in office so far are two editorial page editors, nolan finley of the "detroit news" and john diaz of the "san francisco chronicle," and two columnists, cynthia tucker of the "atlanta journal constitution" and robert robb of the "arizona republic." john >> john diaz, we have the president pushing back. what do you see going on? has he lost ground on health care? >> he has lost ground, and the thing i would say the president was trying to do today, very wisely in my opinion is reshape this debate, because although we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million people who don't have insurance in this country, the fact remains, the vast majority of americans do have coverage and that's really the audience he was going after today, because the thing the pres
. >> reporter: the ad is running on cable in new hampshire, colorado and montana, states where the president is selling his plan this week, trying to reverse growing dissatisfaction over health care reform that showed up in polls of his own popularity. and with me now to talk about the president assess president obama's term in office so far are two editorial page editors, nolan finley of the "detroit news" and john diaz of the "san francisco chronicle," and two...